How to Use weir in a Sentence

weir

noun
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  • The Buena Vista Lagoon has been blocked off from the ocean since the weir was first built in the 1940s.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Try your hand at weaving a fish weir or craft a split bamboo fly rod.
    — Maysoon Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • How did the body travel beyond the weir without being seen?
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The control structure is a concrete weir that parallels the river for a mile and a half.
    — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The weir was there to prevent the same kind of runaway erosion that would happen if water flowed over the dam itself.
    — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • The results were almost immediate — the next year, two coho were caught in the tribe’s weir.
    — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The present-day weir was installed in the early 1970s after the previous structure washed out.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Crews are working to complete the dam’s structure, water pump and overflow weir.
    — Dallas News, 14 June 2021
  • On the Deshka River, a tributary of the Susitna, about 4,200 kings made it past a weir as of Thursday morning.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2018
  • The 220-acre lagoon at the border of Oceanside and Carlsbad has a weir, or low dam, at the mouth near the beach that keeps seawater out and freshwater in.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Build a single inflatable dam or permanent weir on the U.S. side of the border for about $8.6 million.
    — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The improvement project includes installing a concrete wall, building anchor blocks at the base of the dam and elevating the pool weirs by 7 feet.
    — Savannah Mehrtens, Houston Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Plans for the restoration were delayed for several years by a long-standing disagreement over whether the weir should be removed.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In the 1950s, a weir was built at Cowichan Lake to provide water storage for a paper mill, storing and releasing water during the dry months.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The god Errakal was uprooting the mooring-poles, Ninurta, passing by, made the weirs overflow.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The idea of removing the weir has long polarized North County residents.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The company hasn't yet determined whether the weir that drains the lake was open or if contamination may have flowed into the Cape Fear River.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
  • Firefighters were also working to protect structures on the east side of the weir, as well as fortifying a fire line a half mile outside St. Mary’s.
    — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • Throughout the summer of 2018, our staff will use weirs and aerial surveys to gauge run strength to assess if the closure might be modified inseason.
    — Sam Cotten, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • According to Jones, the Shaktoolik River weir counted about a million pinks through the river on Wednesday alone.
    — Author: Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2019
  • The work on the north side of the Brook Road dam began last week with the removal of existing concrete to the original sandstone weir wall, as well as the existing spillway wall being taken down to the shale bedrock.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Firefighters were also working to protect structures on the east side of the weir, as well as fortifying a fire line a half mile (800 meters) outside St. Mary’s.
    — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 11 June 2022
  • Standing near a weir that was collecting and discharging water from a stream, with sensors to detect the flow and water chemistry, Driscoll explained what came next.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2022
  • One morning last week, Rodriguez walked to a forested nature preserve beside oil fields, where the river pushes against a weir and much of the water is diverted into a wide canal.
    — Ian James Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Without the weir, the ocean tides could flow in and out, creating a predominantly saltwater system.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Calcasieu Lake - HR&G reported good catches of redfish on plastics around weirs.
    — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
  • For marine ecologists, SWOT will be able to chart how the levels of the world’s major rivers drop each time a dam or weir interrupts them, and how severely that fragments aquatic habitats.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The erosion at the head of the emergency spillway threatens to undermine the concrete weir and allow large, uncontrolled releases of water from Lake Oroville.
    — Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Water officials currently have not opened the Sacramento weir, which flows into the Yolo Bypass.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The company will rebuild the main spillway, place a 65-foot underground wall to stop erosion on the emergency spillway and lay concrete at least 10 feet thick between the cutoff wall the concrete weir that holds water in the lake.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017

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